Alpine SEC-8028

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Visitors rate this review
1.00 of 5, 1.00 votes

Price Paid:  $550.00 from Classic Sound & Spee

Year / Model Reviewed:
1991 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce

Summary:
It's a nice alarm, has saved me usually. links to my Valet Remote start, Trunk & windows. Uber nice during the solstices. Start the car & still be armed, includes radar sensor & starter kill.

Strengths:
It's loaded, just the way I like it. & the remote even uses a different code @ every use.

Weaknesses:
Unknown @ this moment

Similar Products Used:
None

Price Paid:  $450.00 from inovation audio

Year / Model Reviewed:
 88 chevy z24

Summary:
It is a verry good pruduct, has saved me a few times. hooks up to my viper comand start, verry nice for the winter, start the car and still be armed, also put 2 new led lights in bright white and blue and a second siren. I also have starter kill included in the 450 price.

Strengths:
has a lot of great options, such as starter kill, command start hook up, and 3 extra buttons for trunk pop, windows, door locks, and the remote puts out a diffrent code every time so no one can find it on a scaner and so on.

Weaknesses:
the only problem i have with this product is that the range is acting up, i can only get about 2 meters away, then it doesn't work

Similar Products Used:
gargoyle-2000

Price Paid:  $249.00

Year / Model Reviewed:
 1998 Rodeo

Summary:
Compared to the 5 DEI products I''ve owned, this alarm has 1 fatal flaw in it''s design, and a minor inconvenience that will mostly be a problem for parents. The auto-arming feature only works on the initial engine turning off. So, lets say you park, go to the house, then realize you forgot something in the car. So you go back to the car, open it, and forget to re-arm. It will NOT re-arm, after that first auto-arming, and this is NOT configurable. I''m lucky I still have my car.

Strengths:
Extra remote buttons

Weaknesses:
Fatal flaw - (see Review Summary above) And, it is clearly designed by a NON-PARENT... There are only 15 seconds to auto-arming, which is just not enough time for the parent who needs to get out of the car, and walk around the car to the opposite side rear door to get their kid. (Now, to go off on a tangent, you kid is MUCH safer in the middle, not on the passenger side of the rear seat, but I digress). Anyway... one fatal flaw, one minor flaw.

Similar Products Used:
I''ve owned 4 other DEI products, with no complaints. (At least, with no Fatal complaints)

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
It was a good alarm until it started to fail. So called "dealers" won''t event talk to you if they didn''t install it.

Strengths:
Good features

Weaknesses:
Didn''t last too long. No service from so called "dealers."

Price Paid:  $260.00

Year / Model Reviewed:
 installed in '95 taurus se

Summary:
I love it so far. Consistent with the shock sensor, one button lock/unlock/arm/disarm remote(although it has 3 other buttons for valet/ext outputs). Automatic door locks after car turned on for 10 seconds, automatic door unlock after car turned off. so far an extremely high quality product. dome light supervision...

Strengths:
style, remote fits very nice in hand...
consistent...not many false alarms but still very sensitive to shock

Weaknesses:
i've seen in other alpine security systems the remote buttons go bad quickly...haven't experienced it with this model yet but i will definitely let you know.

Similar Products Used:
crime guard, bulldog. Outscored the bulldog series easily, crime guard was alittle below the alpine.